6:42
وَلَقَدْ اَرْسَلْنَٓا اِلٰٓى اُمَمٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَاَخَذْنَاهُمْ بِالْبَاْسَٓاءِ وَالضَّرَّٓاءِ لَعَلَّهُمْ یَتَضَرَّعُونَ
Walaqad arsalna ila omamin min qablika faakhathnahum bialbasai waalddarrai laAAallahum yatadarraAAoona
Translations
And We have already sent [messengers] to nations before you, [O Muhammad]; then We seized them with poverty and hardship that perhaps they might humble themselves [to Us]
Saheeh International
We have sent already unto peoples that were before thee, and We visited them with tribulation and adversity, in order that they might grow humble
Marmaduke Pickthall